Washington Adventures : How to make white gravy

Another week in DC, another week of adventures, meeting new people and some interesting stories to take back home.

Monday Abbi, Aaron, Megan and I all went to get some top notch seafood. WRONG! We remembered someone told us to go on the river to a buffet called Phillips. My dad always describes amazing seafood places in Vegas and I was imagining this to be somewhat the same. I decided Maryland is not really a seafood place as much as it is a crab place. Unless it is in something else I really do not like crab, it is way to hard to get out of the legs. Even though they didn't have a lot of sea food they did have some decent food but over all a little bit of a let down.

The rest of the week was filled with anticipation to take the train to Baltimore and see the Rangers play. We got on the train at our metro station and it was packed. Since Baltimore is only about 15 miles away many people make the commute everyday for school or work. It was about an hour train ride and it dropped us off right at Camden Yards where the Oriels play. Since the game would be over late we decided to get a hotel in Baltimore and spend Friday exploring downtown.

After dropping our stuff off at the hotel we made our way to the stadium. I have never been an opposing fan at a ballpark before and was a little nervous about the game. We had great seats behind the rangers dugout and there were surprisingly about 30ish rangers fans around us. It was fun eating ballpark food and seeing my favorite team play. The game was a little bit of a let down because we lost but it was awesome to see Kinsler hit a home run.

The group directly in front of us were season ticket holders. What an interesting group of Northerners. Our group and theirs became fast friends and, as always, ended up talking about life in Texas. It was pretty funny when the older man asked Aaron how to make white gravy. I guess I am a true southern because I thought that was a no brainer.

Coming up here I have learned that people from West Texas really are very different from people from the north. Tumble weeds, wind storms, flat land, and droughts are all very strange to people. You would think with all the ethnic food in this area there would be a killer mexican food place. Nope, lots of spanish food, thai, greek, russian, indian, along with many others but no little burrito shacks like home.

Friday morning before Aaron had to catch his plane back to Lubbock we went to an observatory in downtown Baltimore that was right off the harbor. The building was called the World Trade Center, I do not know the history behind the building but it does have some memorial aspects to it. People in the south have so much respect for what happened on 9/11 but up here it seems to be so much more real. New York is only 3 or 4 hours north of here and many first responders went from Maryland. On the glass of the 27th floor look out was all 2700+ people that died in the towers. It was very moving.

After Aaron left Abbi and I went to the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Coolest. Place. Ever. I saw my first real-life 600 pound sea turtle. It is a rescue off the cost of Long Island that is missing a flipper. This place was huge... they even had a giant dolphin tank on the 4th floor.

Baltimore was really fun but it was great to be back at the apartment. Friday night and all day today we slept and were very lazy. Look forward to spending tomorrow in town. Abbi and I are going to go to Georgetown which should be really fun.

4 more weeks until I am home. Can not wait to see Estevan at the Airport and head straight to Rosas!